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Workshop: XML-TEI for Ancient and Medieval Lexicographical Works
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

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Computerised Management of Ancient Scripts: State of the Question and Perspectives
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

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Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online)
by Spence, Paul 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Job Posting: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online) [Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates] The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a technically imaginative and creative research developer to work on two exciting projects: City Witness (which will create an interactive digital atlas of Swansea and 3D visualisations based on eleven witness testimonies describing the hanging of the Welshman William 'Cragh' in the late 13th century) and the well-established Schenker Documents Online project, which is publishing the writings of the twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music (see http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org). Technical curiosity and interest in any or all of linked data, web-based visualisation, or web mapping would be a real advantage. Every research project within the department is characterised by innovation, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop technically imaginative, creative, and elegant solutions whilst at the same time sustaining an awareness of best practices and standards compliance. Full details at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 May 2013 ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano)

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Fwd: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best practice for frequent tasks
by Marjorie Burghart 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear Digital Medievalists, I would like to share with you this message I just sent to the TEI list. This projects needs collaboration from a wide range of scholars, even those who are not familiar with the TEI but would like to help listing the various individual tasks and phenomena involved in scholarly works like critical editions. Best regards, Marjorie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> Date: 8 April 2013 22:34 Subject: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best practice for frequent tasks To: TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu Dear TEI users, I would like to invite you to participate in a project that is very dear to my heart. Two years ago, I created a Critical Apparatus Cheatsheet<http://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en/content/tei-critical-apparatus-che…> giving in a nutshell the "translation" (if I may say so) in TEI of phenomena familiar to scholars making critical editions. Today, I would like to develop the "cheatsheets" as an alternative way of learning TEI, specially targetting people who are familiar with the Humanities concepts behind the encoding, but not the encoding itself. I believe that the advantages of such best practice guides would be twofold: - provide a low-threshold way of learning to encode in TEI for some categories of people at least - provide tool developpers with a clear list of tasks for several operations (i.e. encoding a critical edition, for instance) and the recommended way(s) to encode them, which would greatly facilitate interface building. I have summarized my thought on this TEI Wiki page: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_Cheatsheets and suggested some Cheatsheets we could start creating collaboratively on the Wiki. Please give it some thought, and suggest some tasks, phenomena, and their best encoding(s) in TEI! Best regards,

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Fwd: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

FYI. This looks like a very exciting conference. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:21:47 -0600 From: Peter Robinson <P.M.Robinson(a)BHAM.AC.UK> Reply-To: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Proposals are invited for the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from 11-13 July 2013. This conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution: the movement of all data into digital form and the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of social media opens up the possibilities of collaborative work across whole communities. These changes affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren, Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann). The conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop on collaborative editing systems. Proposals should focus on some aspect of contemporary digital scholarly editing. We welcome descriptions of current projects, theoretical or speculative discussions, bibliographic work, or any aspect of scholarly digital editing. Papers considering scholarly editing in a communal, collaborative context are particularly encouraged. Proposals will be accepted under two strands: one for students of graduate and doctoral programs, one for all others. We particularly welcome proposals from the GO::DH <http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/> (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) community, addressing digital scholarly editing in a global context. We will able to offer financial support for accepted proposals, if needed, in the form of bursaries and/or funding for all travel and other costs, and will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never available. As well as a 500 word abstract, proposers should submit a cover letter explaining their interest in the conference theme, why they want to attend and indicate what level of support (if any) they might need to come to the conference. Proposal submission will close on 26 April; successful proposers will be notified by 10 May 2013. The call is athttps://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13/schedConf/cfp.; the conference website is at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13. On behalf of the conference organizing committee: Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Dan O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Ray Siemens

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Versus differentiales
by Peter Binkley 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

On a Friday afternoon here's something that, I hope, might amuse some Latinists. Out of the flotsam of an old research project that will never get finished, I've set up a twitter feed that will give you a daily versus differentialis of the sort associated with Serlo de Wilton, distinguishing homonyms with short or long penultimate vowels, like this: Est uitrum saphĭrum, pro gemma dico saphīrum. The feed can be followed at https://twitter.com/versdiff , and the verses also get posted to a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VersusDifferentiales and to a Wordpress blog at http://versdiff.wallandbinkley.com/ where there's some background information and a bit of scholarly apparatus. Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services peter.binkley(a)ualberta.ca 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243

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Relevant Articles on Medieval Collections and Copyright
by Alison Tara Walker 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hi Folks, I'm looking for some good articles on issues of copyright pertaining to pre-modern collections for an upcoming class. If anyone has a few references, I'd be most grateful. All best, Alison Walker

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Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013
by James Cummings 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) is an annual training event taking place this year on 8 - 12 July 2013 at the University of Oxford for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students of Digital Humanities. DHOXSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data for the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our 5-day workshops and supplements this with guest lectures by experts in their fields. This year's main workshops include: 1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities 2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and Collaboration 3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on the semantic web. 4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative 5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at the historic Queen's College Oxford. DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Questions: email courses(a)it.ox.ac.uk for answers. James Cummings Director of DHOXSS

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Fwd: Day Conference
by Torsten Schassan 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hi, the following announcement may be of interest for some here. Best, Torsten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Day Conference Datum: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:21:49 -0700 Von: Peter Shillingsburg <peter.shillingsburg(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> An: TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK You are invited to a Day Conference *The Fate of the Page in Digital Environments*** With *Morris Eaves*, U of Rochester; *Patricia Fumerton*, U of California, Santa Barbara; *Laura Estill*, U of Victoria, BC; and *James Knapp*, Loyola U Chicago. Please indicate your intention to participate by April 15 by sending email to Peter Shillingsburg at pshillingsburg(a)luc.edu (the caterers need to know) April 20: 9:30 to 4:30 at Loyola University Chicago Cuneo Rm 2 For schedule and further information see attached poster and visit http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/conferences For directions Building 18 on map at http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/lsc.pdf

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5th International Conference ALIENTO: Nancy – Paris 5 – 6 – 7 November 2013
by Daniel O'Donnell 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

5th International Conference ALIENTO: Linguistic and intercultural analysis of short sapiential statements and of their transmission East/West, West/East Nancy – Paris 5 – 6 – 7 November 2013 Ethical and moral concepts between the three cultures This 5th edition, which concerns the construction of the database, will focus on the way in which the three cultures in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages interpret, translate and conceive such key concepts as, for instance, charity, alms, equity, prudence and speech. What semantic content is transferred from one culture to another, how the appropriations and the re-appropriations (i. e.: semantic calques and metaphorical transfers). What ethical or moral concepts are easily or arduously translatable and why. What are the complex architectures or networks that interconnect these concepts within a given culture and how these architectures or networks differ or not from those in the neighbouring culture (a Latin term may contain senses coming from semantically close terms from the donor language due to cultural affinity or language contact. We will consider as well the incorporation of Arabic semes into the Spanish language of the Middle Ages, the choices made by the translator from Arabic into Hebrew, the translation equivalences which might have occurred at that time). We will address the question of the semantic circulation by starting from the semantic contents of the concepts that shape the moral and ethical ideas in the sapiential texts that were exchanged in the Iberian Peninsula, between the 11th and 15th centuries. These texts are the core material of the research project ALIENTO. We will focus also on the dictionaries, the compilations, the philosophical anthologies (contemporary or not) which give a reading of the conceptual arborescence (or organisation) specific to each culture. If we address the linguistic and automatic treatment of the data, we could consider the question of the ontologies as they are developed and questioned today by semanticists and computer researchers. Workshops will be dedicated to problems concerning the encoding of the texts and to questions related to the linguistic description of the languages of the corpora, namely Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish and Catalan. Articles will be published in the journal: ALIENTO – Echanges Sapientiels en Méditerranée Abstracts should be submitted by July 15th, 2013 to: Marie-Christine Bornes Varol Professeur des Universités (INALCO - Paris) CERMOM EA 4091 Porteur du projet ALIENTO www.aliento.eu 00 33 (0) 1 40 05 98 83 varol(a)noos.fr Marie-Sol Ortola Professeur des Universités (UdL Nancy) Directrice adjointe de l’équipe « LIS » EA 7305 Porteur du projet ALIENTO www.aliento.eu 00 33 (0) 3 83 73 83 01 marie-sol.ortola(a)univ-lorraine.fr Description of the ALIENTO project (Linguistic and intercultural analysis of short sapiential statements and of their transmission East/West, West/East) In the ninth century, the rich Arab tradition of the adab finds its way into Spain, or rather al-Andalus, a country that played a prominent role in the exchange of knowledge from the East to the West in the 11th and 12th centuries especially via the monasteries in the North of the Iberian Peninsula. It is also in al-Andalus where the adab literature meets the Jewish sapiential tradition of the Midrashic literature. New collections are composed, including original works from the 10th and 11th centuries, and from the 12th century on, exempla and philosophers’ sayings are translated into Hebrew, Latin and the Romance languages. Much of this complex heritage is found in the extensive Spanish paremiological literature, which is at its highest in the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as in contemporary Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Maghrebian collections of proverbs. Although the main lines of these exchanges are well-known, we still lack specific information on the circulation of these short sapiential statements (our basic research units) as well as on the successive translating choices made by the translators, their cultural reinterpretations or the importance of some loanwords over others. If sapiential textual filiations and translation sequences should be treated cautiously, this is particularly true of the sapiential statements to be found in these texts. Due to the difficulty in understanding them, these volatile elements, whose categorisation varies with time and cultures, have never been the subject of a comprehensive textual study which could recount their sources, circulation and evolution across the different spoken or written languages of the three cultures living in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle-Ages. The paremiological studies have mostly produced compilations of proverbs (thesauri), critical editions and erudite studies, dedicated to a single work, a single language or a single culture, except for the remarkable ground-breaking work on the Philosophical Quartet (1975) by D. Gutas. The few existing databases are for the most part monolingual contemporary corpora of paremiae or otherwise have a translation-based perspective. Therefore the aim of the ALIENTO project is to work out concordances, even partial, close or distant connections, in order to reassess inter-textual relations by comparing a great quantity of data and by interconnecting encoded texts written in different languages. This is why the project, which needs a close interdisciplinary collaboration between computational researchers (ATILF), linguists and specialists in literature (MSH Lorraine + INALCO and the international network of collaborators), will develop a piece of software transferable to other similar texts to be used with a large reference corpus made up of 8 related texts 582 pages for an estimated 9,570 sapiential statements, which circulated in the Iberian Peninsula (in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish and Catalan). The produced software will extract and connect short sapiential statements through concordances generated by the specific encoding system scientifically developed and explained in an encoding manual XML-TEI. ATILF will create a multilingual interrogation programme (in French, Spanish and English) of the matched data and will give access online to the ALIENTO corpus annotated texts via the CNRTL in order to ensure a permanent archiving of the texts. At the end of the project we will have:  a body of texts in a multilingual corpus, digitised, tagged in XML/TEI and publicly accessible, linked to a set of data about the texts and their authors.  a set of short sapiential units with their XML/TEI annotations, accessible free of charge.  a trilingual questioning interface that will display the concordanced statements contained in these works, with information that could be used to study them, irrespective of the language.  an encoding methodology and a piece of software for matching data that could be used with other similar corpora. Considerations arising from the project: The aim of the project consists in reviewing the role of the Iberian Peninsula in the transfer and exchange of the sapiential knowledge from the East to the West and from the West to the East in the Middle Ages by studying the brief sapiential statements they contain (maxims, sentences, proverbes, aphorisms). The raised issues are: 1) Which are the precise links between the exchanged sapiential texts between different languages, different cultures and three religions in the Iberian Peninsula (and Provence) in the Middle Ages? 2) What changes were brought about by the translations, re-interpretations and readings, contained in the numerous works and compilations written between the 9th and 15th centuries? 3) Starting from the ancient sapiential sources, how do we get to the modern and contemporary Mediterranean collections of proverbs -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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